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@@Jatoisahib786 This was a 777-300. Somebody once described turbulence the following way: The atmosphere is like a slightly runny Jello and planes are the fruit chunks in it. Every so often, someone gives the Jello a slap and all the fruit chunks nearby get bounced around a bit.

@@JesusAlways1st You could trip and bang your head on the way to the bathroom at home. Try not to overthink things that worry you, but rather try to understand them and take comfort from that understanding.

@@Dank951 A properly trimmed aircraft is inherently stable by virtue of the dihedral of the wings. Excessive or poorly timed control inputs can make things significantly worse. Also consider that any consider that you cannot actually see turbulence, so any control inputs are reactionary. A boat moving across a dead calm piece of water will still bob along because of the way that water behaves. Air, being fluid behaves in a similar way so even in a stable, level cruise the aircraft will naturally rise and fall ever so slightly.

@@DianaDayton As a flight attendant, when your captain tells you he's been knocked out of his seat and it's severe, then it's severe. The video isn't the whole event and I can assure you that the whole crew was strapped in for almost 30 minutes. Severity is the product of Intensity and Duration. The 'pot hole' analogy is for wind shear or clear air turbulence... Sudden, unexpected pockets that can be extremely intense - dropping a couple of hundred feet in a second unexpectedly for example. In this case, we were flying west over the high terrain of central Greenland as one of the most, if not the most, significant low pressure system to cross the Atlantic on 2023 was heading east over the same land mass and don't forget that you typically have a trough in the Jetstream permanently negotiating Greenland. So what may not have had the dramatic effect of hitting a pothole at speed, the cumulative effects are actually worse as we were being knocked not just up and down, but also sideways simultaneously. I fly around 40,000 miles a month and whilst I have experienced much shorter bursts of more intense disruption, this event was just as severe due to it's sustained duration. Normally crossing the Atlantic is the same as crossing the street to get your morning coffee... you know the pavement as well as the back of your hand so you know what to expect and when and whilst it can regularly be enough to not serve hot drinks or have the seatbelts on, it doesn't disrupt you from doing your thing.

Never happened.

@@ae747sp5 Not necessarily, but that said, westbound trans Atlantic tends to be day time and eastbound at night. Much of it depends on the strength and direction of any Jetstreams together with how they interact with Greenland. I have had perfectly smooth flights crossing over Greenland against the Jetstreams, (see my video titled "The second fastest way to cross Greenland") and somewhat turbulent flights a couple of hundred miles to the south. And a strong tail wind can be just as rough as a strong headwind. It all depends on how the air is moving at any particular point. When explaining the turbulence within the air, I liken it to the wake of a barge on a river... You get the bow wave and subsequent wake that ripples evenly either side, but long after both the barge and wake have passed there's a deeper swirling eddy from where the propellers have churned through the water... The ripples of the wake are pretty predictable and might rock you about a bit, but the eddys can affect you in unpredictable ways. Air is a liquid and moves in a similar way to water but is alot less dense so the effects are more subtle. The turbulence in this video was the result of a strong Jetstream being impacted by a storm system as both tried to cross Greenland at the same time. We had climbed to about 41,000 to get above the worst of it, but I suspect that even if we had flown a more southerly route we would still have been impacted by the displaced air. By contrast, clear air turbulence is the effect of those deeper seated eddys... Much more short lived, isolated events but potentially more dramatic as they tend to be totally unexpected.

@@marcusmalmquist773 Only in Airplane Mode😉

@@vonqq9669 Turbulence comes in many forms, this being the result of flying into a Jetstream whilst passing over a substantial storm system just as it was crossing some of the highest terrain on Greenland. Again, this video is about 9 minutes of something that lasted much longer, (See my more recent Greenland video for how long it takes to cross Greenland), clearly you weren't on this flight and if you watch the video through, you'll see the altitude of the aircraft along with just how much it was moving around relative to the direction of travel. The cabin was extremely well prepared and everyone, including the crew was strapped in. I make no apologies for the lack of drama, blood and gore. If you see any of that on a flight then it's either totally unexpected and/or the passengers and crew aren't adequately prepared. You might experience more abrupt turbulence taking off or landing around southeast Asia, but it tends to be short-lived and generally in conditions that more responsible airlines would not operate in... Much better to wait five minutes than to take off into a monsoon.

@@wotchyadoingalan I completely agree, that description is Moderate turbulnce. If you watch other videos of turbulnce which are of greater intensity you will see the fuselage shake/drop much more than this, or the wing flex much more.

@@vonqq9669 Had this been on a 737 rather than a 777 then it would have given the illusion of being worse in the same way that a small boat in a rough sea will feel worse than a big ship in the same conditions... that doesn't alter the conditions. Watch the video as it is filmed out of the window and looks how sharply the jet blast from the engine is moving in relation to the aircraft

@@Sweetie8387 Several airlines run Fear Of Flying courses, British Airways and easyJet to name but two in the UK. These typically involve a classroom session followed by an hour or so flight. Flying tens of thousands of miles each month, it's easy to take it for granted, but it brings something special to the day reassuring nervous passengers. The lumps and bumps are nothing to be afraid of as long as you're strapped in😉.

Flight Air France 447 wasn't such luck ...

I don't fly, period.

@@coach2208 i drive and fly, and get buses and trains, flying is statistically safer, plus you get to see other places all over the world. Do it !, but i have a feeling you'll say no.

@@guiltseeker had a bad experience , that's why I don't fly.

@@oliverwashington850 The 777-300 is a long aircraft, but this is mostly because of configuration of this aircraft😉 Although it doesn't help that the bulkhead at the front of this cabin is a very dark grey...

@@meinv19 Sat in 53J. Camera held to the armrest to try and keep it relatively stable.

​@@wotchyadoingalan approve, same route, but first time i was in the middle part of A332, like 40 row (right on the wing section) the flight was smooth asf until landing, in Shanghai were strong wind gusts, like 16 m/s. On other hand, same route, but my seat was deep in rear part of aircraft 65A, that was such an unpleasant experience, plane was in light-moderate turbulence for 1 hour, on all length of our flight was small sessions of turbulence, but it felt different than omw to PVG. Now i'm booking seats only in front or middle part of plane

Choć było źle, było sto razy lepiej niż lądowanie Ryanaira…

When you fly enough, it is normal. As long as the wings don’t snap off, everything is fine.

This is moderate turbulence.

​@@brucesmith9144Clearly you weren't on this flight. The entire episode lasted about 25 minutes and was severe enough for the Captain to share that he had been knocked sideways in his seat,(a first in his 35 year career), and for a severe turbulence event to be recorded in the AML. This airline prides itself first and foremost on the safety of it's customers. Hence the exceptionally well prepared cabin, passengers and crew. Other airlines might choose to carry out meal services whilst negotiating thunderstorms, and whilst that makes for exciting videos and dramatic headlines, I know which approach I prefer.

And the crew going through the cabin ensuring that everyone was actually wearing their belts. It might seem annoying that we pester people about wearing their belts during the flight but it's for good reason. Take the Singapore Airlines incident last week as an example. At least one fatality and several badly injured and diverted to Bangkok... You'll note that the BA flight on the same route at around the same time had none of those issues. It's pretty straightforward really... If you're strapped in, you won't be able to hit the ceiling. If you can't hit the ceiling then you can't break your head on the ceiling or break the ceiling with your head. And if you're stupid enough to be serving food in those circumstances, then your focus is in the wrong place.

There were, before during and after, both from the flight crew and the cabin crew. There's none during this clip, but it takes about half an hour to cross Greenland and this is only ~8 minutes of it.

Mixed driving. But don't forget it's nearly 2 tons of car with an automatic gearbox and four wheel drive.

Well, you obviously weren't on that flight... None of that happened because everything was put away and everyone was strapped in. We were lucky because we had about 30 minutes warning so were totally ready for it. What the video doesn't show is what it felt like. If you watch to the view from the window you can see the jet blast moving relative to the window and just how much the aircraft is actually moving around. And at risk of repeating myself, it was enough that the Captain felt the aircraft get knocked sideways so violently that he commented that it was the first time in 35 years that he had felt his seat get slammed sideways and upon landing at LAX the aircraft was subject to a turbulence check because of the severity.

😢​@@wotchyadoingalan

Same

You're not alone. This sounds exactly like what we encountered at the start and for the next 20 minutes or so flying into Chicago on June 21, 1971. For us, they went from severe to extreme when the flight attendants were instructed to remove and store any shoes on people's feet that couldn't be buckled, tied or strapped. This was before the sophisticated radar we have today. The pilot was trying to keep the altitude high enough, because he was concerned that we'd hit wind sheer. We did! I never thought an airplane can fall 6,000 feet in 10 seconds, but when you have as much wind pushing down on the plane as it did ours, we got the warning. "Hold on people; there's gonna be one hell of a bump!" The pilot said about 30 seconds before it happened. We also flipped forward and came back up, not before the front landing gear was ripped from the DC-8. I lost consciousness for a few seconds, as did others. Many screamed, and a man had a heart attack during the event. He and a little baby had to be evacuated once we landed and were taken to the hospital. Once we disembarked, we were all checked out by medical personel at the airport terminal and sent on our way. I had to board a Boeing 737 -- a little, tiny jet by today's standards, and headed to Moline, Illinois an hour and a half later. I still get nervous to this day when we encounter turbulence. Did you know that a plane can fall up to 15x the speed of terminal velocity and even more when wind sheer forces a plane down? We were very fortunate to have a WWII fighter pilot flying our plane on that day. I was only 6-years-old, but I remember it like it just happened.

@@heatherstub was it a bad landing without any landing front landing gear ?

Yes. .exactly 100% same feeling here😅

Close but no cigar😉

@@wotchyadoingalan What was your final destination?

@@Ahuntsicspotter LAX

@@wotchyadoingalan AMS-LAX KLM Boeing 777.

​@@AhuntsicspotterWell it was a 777.